Mine car



(No Model.)

J. ODORIZZI.

DUMP CAR. l No. 481,811". Patented A11-g. 30, '1892.

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ATTOHNEYS ma Nonals Pinks cul, muro-uwe.. wnsmmrrau, nA cA JOSEPH ODORIZZI, OF TRINIDAD, COLORADO, ASSIGNOR TO THE FORBES MINE CAR APPLIANCE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

DUMP-CAR.

SPECIFICATION formi-ng part of Letters Patent No. 481,811, dated August 30, 1892.

Application filed January 1l, 1892. Serial No. 417,757. (No model.)

.T all whom it may concern/f position last described, it will be seen that Beit known that I, JOSEPH ODORIZZI, of the vertical portion c of the latch lies be- Trinidad, in the county of Las Animas and hind the lug d, and by preventing the door State of Colorado, have invented a new and from being pushed outwardlysecurely retains o 5 useful Improvement in Dump-Cars, of which the contents of the car, the spring E serving the following is a specification. to hold the latch to its position, so that the My invention relates to dump-cars used in vertical bolt portion c does not jolt out of mines, dtc., for transporting ore, coal, dsc. It the plane of the lug CZ in one direction and has more especial reference to the means for the stop F holding it against movement in 55 ro locking the suspended end door of the car; the other. When the door is to be opened, and it consists in the peculiar construction however, the handle portion c2 of the latch is and arrangement of these devices, as Will be grasped and raised or struck and raised and hereinafter fully described. the friction of the spring being overcome, the

Figure 1 is an end elevation of the car-door, latch is deflected and the vertical bolt por- 6o r 5 and Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section tion c of the latch is moved to one side of of the same, taken on line the locking-lug d, as shown in dotted lines,

A represents the car-body, which is made which permits the door to come open. Inof metal or other suitable material; and B is stead of locating the lug d on the draw-bar the end door of the car, which door is atany catch or projection on the bottom of the 65 zo tached to and suspended from a rod b, concar may be used.

nected to its upper horizontal edge and jour- Having thus described my invention, what naled in bearings in the sides of the car. I claim as new is To the door B near its lower edge is jointed l. The combination, with a dump-car havor fulcrumed a T-shaped lever-latch coming a draw-bar and a catch or lug d, of asus- 7o posed of a horizontal portion c, a vertical pended end door having a latch connected downwardly-projecting bolt portion c', and a with a horizontal portion fulcrumed to the rightangular offsetting handle portion c2, vdoor and a vertical portion extending downwhich is formed on the end of the horizontal wardly to engagement with said lug d, and a section opposite its fulcrum and constitutes stop for maintaining the normal locking po- 75 ',o a handle for operating the latch.- sition of said latch, substantially as shown D is the draw-bar of the car, which is seand described.

cured to its bottom, and outside the plane of 2. The' combination, with a dump-car havthe door is provided with a stout bevel-faced ing a draw-bar and a catch or lugv d, of a suslug or projection d. pended end door having a latch constructed 8o E is a flat spring riveted to the door oppowith a horizontal portion fulcrumed to the site the handle of the latch and bearing outdoor, averticalportion extending downwardly vwardly with a frictional contact against the to engagement with said lug d and an offsethorizontal portion of the latch to hold it ting handle, a stop for maintaining the noragainst accidentally jarring out of position. mal locking position of the latch, and a re- 8 5 4o F is a stop pin, lug, or bolt fastened to the taining-spring for holding the latch against end door beneath the horizontal portion of jolting loose, substantially as shown and dethe latch and supporting the same in its norscribed.

mal position, with the pendent vertical bolt JOSEPH ODORIZZI. portion c directly in line with the draw-bar Vitnesses: and immediately behind the retaininglug d JULIUs H. CLARK,

of the draw-bar. When the parts are in the WM. LITTLEFIELD. 

